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AO-2023-001 update - "Just the facts Juan!"  

Here is how it is done Popinjay: Juan (blancoliro) conducts a Youtube interim factual presentation of Sea World midair from the other side of the world...

ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305478

Narrative:
Two Eurocopter EC 130B4 helicopters of Sea World Helicopters suffered a mid-air collision near Sea World Heliport (YSWD), Main Beach, Queensland.
VH-XKQ was departing Sea World Heliport when it was struck by the approaching VH-XH9 and it crashed nose down onto a sand bank and VH-XH9 made an emergency landing on the same sand bank with severe damage to the cockpit section.
Four of the seven occupants died and three received critical injuries. Five of the six occupants of the VH-XH9 received minor injuries by cockpit glass debris.

Ex PK-URR, ZK-IJV

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LINKS:
ATSB: https://youtu.be/nSWILVsyrII
Flight Aware: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSWILVsyrII&t=0s
Pprune thread: https://www.pprune.org/rotorheads/650560...st11363001

P2 comment: Note that the ATSB link provided (above) is for the ABC Youtube version of the Popinjay amateur hour press conference. A quick visit to the ATSB official Youtube channel and Facebook page shows that both the Appin and Gold Coast Popinjay press conferences were apparently not officially recorded by the ATSB??    

Compare that to this for the NTSB equivalent webpages - HERE & HERE.  

Next from 1NewsNz: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/07/inqui...18-months/

..The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) updated its website on Friday to state the anticipated date for completing its investigation was between July and September in 2024.

"A final report will be released at the conclusion of the investigation. Should a critical safety issue be identified during the investigation, the ATSB will immediately notify relevant parties, so that appropriate safety action can be taken," the bureau's website said.

The Australian National Audit Office 2019 report into the bureau's investigative efficiency found that it took an average of 19 months to produce a report on "complex" incidents.

ATSB Chief Commissioner Angus Mitchell has previously said that transport safety investigators with experience in helicopter operations, maintenance and survivability engineering had been deployed to the crash site from the bureau's Brisbane and Canberra offices...

MTF...P2 

PS BOLO ALERT! - Popinjay MIA, last seen 1 week ago postulating in the vicinity of the Seaworld theme park: